57 Years Ago In The New Yorker Why look at an issue from 57 years ago you might ask (instead of 50, 60 years ago, or 70, and so on)? The answer is convenience. A bound volume of New Yorkers covering September-October 1965 happens to be hanging around in the vicinity of my desk. It’s hanging around because it’s one
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Packing Up Mort Gerberg’s Papers I’ve visited with just a few colleagues at their studios who were in the pre-stage of sending off their archives to an institution. But until Karen Greene (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University Libraries and Librarian/Specialist at Columbia University in the City of New York) posted the series below on Facebook I’d never
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Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
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Alice Harvey’s First & Last New Yorker Cartoon Alice Harvey’s work appeared for 18 years in The New Yorker, beginning in 1925, its first year of publication. Ms. Harvey went on to publish over 160 drawings, 3 covers, and one piece of fiction (“A Taxi-Driver Comments On The Whalen Plan”…Feb. 9, 1929). As Liza Donnelly wrote in her book, Very
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